The victim, 48-year-old Anthony Glenn Maupin, was on a sidewalk near a home in the 200 block of West Kenton Street about 5:30 p.m. Sunday.

Around the corner, police taped off another crime scene two hours later. That time it was the suspect's apartment.

"When I go there I didn't know. It was bad, he was covered in blood. I didn't know where it was coming from," said Rose Smith, a friend of Maupin's.

Smith said she found her friend lying on the sidewalk and tried her best to save him.

"He was laying on the streets and I was over him putting pressure on his wound to keep it from bleeding out more that what it did. When he looked up at me, that was it. He took that last breath, and that was it," said Smith.

Smith said Maupin was stabbed in the chest.

Doctors pronounced him dead at University of Louisville Hospital an hour later.

Police eventually led a handcuffed Mathews from his apartment to a police cruiser and began questioning him.

He was charged with murder just hours later.

"It's not only one friend, it's two. Yeah, one of them can't say nothing, and the other one is going to jail," said Smith.

Maupin's neighbor watched initial reports of the murder on the news Monday morning and got a bad feeling.

"Last night I seen his mother over here, and it kind of dawned on me that it could have been him," said neighbor Wallace Hatcher.

Hatcher said Maupin meant the world to him and called him one of his best friends.

"He'd do anything in the world for you even if you don't ask him. He would cut my grass for me because he knew I wasn't able to do it," said Hatcher.

According to several accounts, Mathews and Maupin drank and hung out together all the time.

The crime has nearly everyone who knew the men struggling to understand why it happened.

"It's just wrong. It's not right," said Smith.

Witnesses at the scene last night said Mathews was drunk.

Police would not confirm that, but did say it may have appeared the suspect was wobbly because he normally walks with a cane.

Mathews will be arraigned Tuesday morning.

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